what are you reading today?

[daydream]

[erbs]

[altwaev]

i've been hard into science fiction lately.

picked up The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven yesterday, 1st ed hardcover, for $0.35 !

[Dex_star]

[Horvy]

I've been alternating between Catcher in the Rye and the Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon.

[Corbin Law]

just finished under the volcano

a fucking tour d force if there ever was one. ill think ill have to re read this book in my late 40's to make better sense of it. i didnt really fall into the rythm until later in the book so it made for a difficult read at times. especially when its just going on and on with these cosmic hallucinations. it reminded me of death of artemio cruz at times.

just started the body in the mind. it is most interesting to do declare.

[coalessence]

finally got ahold of this today...

[kiser]

[premiumsqueezed]

[lucky_cloud]

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. Even more enjoyable than In Praise of the Stepmother, which I read last week.

[jasutek]

[esoteric]

Some interesting looking books in here. What I currently picked up and am reading.

[Dex_star]

finished it tonight

bought these today (I went to pickup Money for the book club, but they didnt have it):

You guys talk about this so much I had to try it....

And also, this was shelved under Almost Transparent Blue.. It looked interesting, and a pretty easy, quick read... The Fuck Up

[Synthetic <3]

I've been alternating...

[FUCK]

Really loved the conceptual approach this book took. Pretty good read and its really not that difficult (navigating the text) once you figure out the general approach to this writing style. Have you seen his latest book, Only Revolutions? Not sure if I'm even going to attempt that one. Just looks too gimmicky for me.

[__CB__]

[kiser]

Really loved the conceptual approach this book took. Pretty good read and its really not that difficult (navigating the text) once you figure out the general approach to this writing style. Have you seen his latest book, Only Revolutions? Not sure if I'm even going to attempt that one. Just looks too gimmicky for me.

Agree about the book. It was one of my favorite reads of the summer. I looked at Only Revolutions and didn't know what to think of it at first, so I told my friend to buy it. He just started it and he's gonna tell me how it is before I devote any time to it.

[Appleseed]

^ My chick loves Coelho, and has forced me to read all those. I found Alchemist way more interesting than Portobello.

[suremanok]

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i am nearly finished Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (fantastic in the true sense of the word) and am a third of the way into Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin. Onegin is surprisingly entertaining, about a foppish dilletante that gets bored of high society, and... well... that's as far as i have gotten.

[Yardsale]

Paul Auster has a new book out. A quick read...so far so good. The premise is something like what if 9/11 never happened and we are in the middle of a civil war in America

[mrjuby]

just finished this today

today as well

[mr.invincible]

probably posted before, but just got these two today from borders

and

[MIJ]

Finished up Rats saw God for the third time. It never gets boring. Anyone else read this book and have any comments they would like to share?

[newaesthetic]

Just finished this up and it was far different from the movie... but still trying to decide if I liked it more this way.

I started up 1984 right afterwards because for whatever reason, our schools never pushed it on us. So far, so good, but I left it at work tonight so I can't continue tomorrow, despite having a lot empty time I could put to good use.

[maxlin]

Alan Lapidus’s life has been a Zelig-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era’s most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various Mafia big shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends, and spies.

Everything by Design takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City, Moscow, the Amazon rainforest, and New York. Along the way we learn why Mickey Mouse never seems to use the restroom, why the baccarat tables in casinos are always far away from the dice tables, why the CIA wanted him to redesign Havana’s main synagogue, and why the tunnels under the Hotel Moskva can’t be touched.

Everything by Design is a keenly observed social and cultural history of modern America by one of its key shapers.

[Appleseed]

[Biff15]

...put down Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations to start on this:

...watching the miniseries fascinated me, so decided to check the book out... will serve as something to do on my flight later on today...

[mr.invincible]

^ i just finished BATMAN: The Killing JOKE and wanted someone's opinion on that. I don't know whether to say it's good or not, but I can see why Chris Nolan gave this to Heath to read.

[jack napier]

right now i am reading...

virtual light - william gibson,

simulacra & simulation - jean baudrillard,

positions - jacques derrida,

the history of sexuality pt. 1 - michel foucault,

complete works - franz kafka

society of the spectacle - guy debord

all are very good, but baudrillard is definitely challenging.